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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Ver, I love Sharon Redd (the uncredited vocal on "Love Insurance"). I was only 2 or 3 in the disco days, but had I been born some years earlier there woulda been no one to get my arse away from that dancefloor. Thank God House came after and gave me some good grooves.

"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

A sad loss indeed, Veritas. She never got the recognition that was due to her.

I love "Can You Handle It," I first heard it back in 92 or 93 when it was remixed by DNA and became a minor hit in the UK. It's one of those late disco - early House tracks that really gets you going. A true diva she was.

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

This thread has been lot of fun, listening to the hits of the past. Brought back some unforgettable memories. Unfortunately and sadly, I am also reminded, that most of the people, that I partied with throughout the 70's and 80's have all passed on now.

I used to help a friend of mine run the light show on occasion at a club in Buffalo. I remember all the flyers going out about the music and this high-tech light show, that he and his partner had invested in. Supposedly one of the best light shows around.

I was going through some paper work the other day, and came across my friends Obituary. He passed on in February of 1999. ( My partner( ED) also knew him) , he used to visit us here in Florida. Hard to believe it's been almost 10 years.

Unfortunately and sadly, I am also reminded, that most of the people, that I partied with throughout the 70's and 80's have all passed on now.

I feel exactly the way you do. As much as I enjoy hearing all these wonderful songs, many of them also cause me to feel a deep melancholy and sadness, particularly, of course, when a particular number is associated in my mind with someone who is no longer with us. There are so many, so many. The disco queens of the 70s were the generation of gay men that were hit the hardest; they were infected before any of us knew anything was happening, and they were the first to go--an entire generation almost completely wiped out. We must continue to enjoy the music that at the time inspired our feelings of brotherhood to never-before heights, but we must also never forget. R.I.P.

It's 7:45 A.M. here on the east coast and time for some morning music. There were many attempts to take a Broadway-musical song, give it a disco arrangement, and use a performer not normally considered a disco singer. This is my favorite: the gay Cole Porter and gay Johnny Mathis. It was a great favorite at the Saint at about this hour, and IMHO it's quite beautiful:

thanks for that link V as I mentioned earlier that I was just a little too young and by the time I could get into the clubs, the disco backlash was about to begin, there was a throw-away phrase in that article about me and my friends though -

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By 1976, there were reportedly 10,000 discos in the U.S.: discos for kids, for senior citizens, for roller-skaters, and portable discos

We danced to the same beat only with wheels under out feet - at the skating rink

I remember being 10 years old and sitting in front of the radio for hours with my cassette recorder, microphone in hand, waiting for this song to play. Now kids click a button and get their music. Back in the day if you didn't have money and loved music you sat by the radio with your microphone, listened to Casey Kasem's America's Top 40 and prayed he didn't talk over the song.

In my opinion no disco list would be complete without Donna Summer's "I Feel Love". My father bought the song and we sat there together with the hi-fi cranked up thinking "this is the future". It was hypnotic mix of computers, passion and coolness. I was totally blown away.

I love love love First Choice! Just didn't live it on the dancefloor, coming into my own more in the mid 80's and the house explosion. Its direct line from First Choice to Marshall Jefferson, Ten City, etc.

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx

The first big city gay disco I ever went to was in San Francisco in 1985. I can't remember the name of the place. Not the Stud or DV8, which werent disco and more like the bar/clubs I knew in New York from my teens, which werent gay - Mudd, Danceteria, etc.

I went to that gay disco thinking I was slumming - to go see the old fags, basically. It was empty as hell. Then quite late a bunch of leather queens showed up and then the fan dancers. The fan dancers were INCREDIBLE, something I'd never seen in NY cause I was downtown and post 54.

I'd now kinda like to become fabulous and tawdry fan dancer for my 50's. I'm sure I could scare quite a few twinkies - like I was shocked when I was one myself.

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx